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After seeing “The Passion” Muslims start searching for the Gospel
Asia News ^ | April 7, 04 | Asia News

Posted on 04/07/2004 1:38:48 PM PDT by churchillbuff

Doha (AsiaNews) – “”Do you have the New Testament in Arab? Me and all my friends would like to read it.” This was the request of 2 students from Qatar, after seeing Mel Gibson’s “The Passion of the Christ”.

Already on the second day after the film started showing in Qatar, many local newspapers are reporting the film on their front pages. According to the English language daily, The Peninsula Qatar, since the first three days of its release, 66,321 tickets have been sold –smashing the record once held by Matrix Reloaded, which had sold 59,000.

The film is becoming so popular in Qatar that some theaters have cancelled showings of other films in order to increase viewings of Gibson’s blockbuster.

Middle East Christians are spellbound by the interest Arabs have taken in the seeing the Gospel portrayed on the big screen.

The movie has sparked hours of discussion between Christians and Muslims regarding questions of faith. Many Arabs were interested in seeing the film only because of the anti-Semitic controversy surrounding it. However the movie’s theme is an unavoidable subject. “The message of loving your enemies and Jesus who, even while up on the cross, prayed for and forgave them strikes all viewers deeply,” said David and Natalie, an American married couple working in Qatar.

The American couple said they were amazed the government had permitted the film to be released in an Islamic country like Qatar. “In the next few weeks tens of thousands of people living here will go and see this powerful retelling of Christ’s suffering and death. Many moviegoers react to the film. For example, those sitting next to us in the theater were moved and breathless. Others wept or had looks of disgust on their facers when watching the brutality Jesus underwent,” they said.

"This film is generating huge interest in Jesus and the Bible,” said David and Natalie. “All this has never happened before!”


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News
KEYWORDS: christianity; conversion; gibson; islam; passion; qatar; repentandbebaptized
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To: churchillbuff
TBN's Paul Crouch was raised in the middle-east and can speak Arabic. Someone needs to contact him; I'm sure he's got bibles in Arabic.
101 posted on 04/07/2004 4:43:18 PM PDT by shield (The Greatest Scientific Discoveries of the Century Reveal God!!!! by Dr. H. Ross, Astrophysicist)
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To: Lost Highway
I sort of make a distinction between Islam and all other faiths.
102 posted on 04/07/2004 4:43:59 PM PDT by ZULU (God Bless Senator Joe McCarthy!!!)
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To: Aquinasfan
So what did I say that contradicted that?
103 posted on 04/07/2004 4:44:40 PM PDT by ZULU (God Bless Senator Joe McCarthy!!!)
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To: Paleo Conservative
Yes. There are still Christian Arabs like the Maronite Rite of the Catholic Church and they deserve a lot of credit for adhering to their beliefs in the face of the most brutal Islamic oppression.
104 posted on 04/07/2004 4:46:13 PM PDT by ZULU (God Bless Senator Joe McCarthy!!!)
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To: Aquinasfan
Which 7 Books did Martin Luther remove from the Bible?
105 posted on 04/07/2004 4:57:30 PM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion: The Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: missyme
Happy Easter Everyone!

We don't agreee on all that much, especially hunting, but it's nice to see an upbeat post on some threads.

Happy Easter!

Happy Passover! (JFJ celebrates that too)

106 posted on 04/07/2004 5:07:03 PM PDT by SJackson (America ... through dissent and protest it lost the ability to mobilize a a will to win, Bui Tin)
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To: AnalogReigns
One of the problems is they take the Gospel of Barnabas which seems to claim that God made Judas look like Jesus as part of his betrayal and therefore Judas was crucified.

Pretty loose evidence.....but you can draw any conclusion from any book claiming to be that of the bible....
107 posted on 04/07/2004 5:28:35 PM PDT by graf008
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To: SJackson
bump
108 posted on 04/07/2004 5:32:12 PM PDT by churchillbuff
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To: ZULU
Maybe they are seeing something different from what we see--but they are also seeing something very different from what they have been taught by their centuries of carney-crackpot religious scam artists.

The fact is becoming clear that this film has been having totally unpredicted effects on numbers of people...one wonders, after all, if it is not true that "the truth shall set you free..."
109 posted on 04/07/2004 5:35:14 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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To: Buggman
5 Myths About 7 Books

2/3 of Apostolic quotes of the Old Testament in the New Testament are from the Septuagint.

The Church canonized Scripture. Who determined the non-Catholic canon?

The Church translated the Bible into the vernacular long before Luther's time. The Church suppressed poor vernacular translations. For example, the Seventh Commandment in the non-Catholic "Wicked Bible" of 1632 reads, "thou shall commit adultery."

Council of Rome, 382 A.D.:

The Decree of Pope St. Damasus I, Council of Rome. 382 A.D.... ST. DAMASUS 1, POPE, THE DECREE OF DAMASUS: It is likewise decreed: Now, indeed, we must treat of the divine Scriptures: what the universal Catholic Church accepts and what she must shun. The list of the Old Testament begins: Genesis, one book; Exodus, one book: Leviticus, one book; Numbers, one book; Deuteronomy, one book; Jesus Nave, one book; of Judges, one book; Ruth, one book; of Kings, four books; Paralipomenon, two books; One Hundred and Fifty Psalms, one book; of Solomon, three books: Proverbs, one book; Ecclesiastes, one book; Canticle of Canticles, one book; likewise, Wisdom, one book; Ecclesiasticus (Sirach), one book; Likewise, the list of the Prophets: Isaiah, one book; Jeremias, one book; along with Cinoth, that is, his Lamentations; Ezechiel, one book; Daniel, one book; Osee, one book; Amos, one book; Micheas, one book; Joel, one book; Abdias, one book; Jonas, one book; Nahum, one book; Habacuc, one book; Sophonias, one book; Aggeus, one book; Zacharias, one book; Malachias, one book. Likewise, the list of histories: Job, one book; Tobias, one book; Esdras, two books; Esther, one book; Judith, one book; of Maccabees, two books...

110 posted on 04/07/2004 5:45:13 PM PDT by Aquinasfan (Isaiah 22:22, Rev 3:7, Mat 16:19)
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To: graf008
Does Egyption law provide for this, or is this a function of unorderly mobs?

Oppression of Christians in Egypt is carried out under official government sanction. And by "unorderly mobs," when they want to amuse themselves.
111 posted on 04/07/2004 5:48:48 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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To: ZULU
But Moslems are people, too -- and nowhere do the Gospels say that the message of Jesus should be withheld from any particular group.
112 posted on 04/07/2004 5:49:49 PM PDT by churchillbuff
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To: ZULU
Christians should be careful of the Islamic fascination with this film. They are watching the same thing we are watching but seeing something very different - ditto when they read the gospels.

God said that he is watching over His word, to preform it. He does not care any less about the Arabs or Muslims. He is knocking on hearts, pray some open the door. What could be better than a Muslim coming to know the Jewish Messiah!

113 posted on 04/07/2004 5:55:36 PM PDT by feedback doctor (we need more Bort license plates in the gift shop)
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To: Ann Archy
Which 7 Books did Martin Luther remove from the Bible?

Sirach, Tobit, Wisdom, Judith, 1 and 2 Maccabees, and Baruch, as well as longer versions of Daniel and Esther.

(5 Myths About 7 Books)

Luther did not believe in Purgatory, so he desired to remove 2 Maccabees from the canon of Scripture, specifically, the following passage:

2 Macabbees

44 for if he were not expecting the fallen to rise again, it would have been useless and foolish to pray for them in death.
45 But if he did this with a view to the splendid reward that awaits those who had gone to rest in godliness, it was a holy and pious thought.
46 Thus he made atonement for the dead that they might be freed from this sin.

The pretext for removing this passage and book was the elimination of the "deuterocanon," books of Scripture that were cited by the Apostles (who used the Septuagint), but rejected by the Pharisees (who used the OT found in Protestant Bibles) and the Saducees (who only accepted the Torah). Luther decided to take his canon from the Jewish "council" of Jamnia (90 A.D.), the same "council" that rejected the NT as Scripture.
114 posted on 04/07/2004 6:01:26 PM PDT by Aquinasfan (Isaiah 22:22, Rev 3:7, Mat 16:19)
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To: SJackson
LOL...
Here Here
Happy Passover!! Happy Easter!! and let PEACE be a part of our daily lives and within our earth!

Freepers are the Best!

P.S
Still working on my hunting views :-)
115 posted on 04/07/2004 6:04:58 PM PDT by missyme
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To: Aquinasfan
Thank you!! You are an incredible font of knowledge...are you a priest?
116 posted on 04/07/2004 6:06:55 PM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion: The Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: missyme

Kosher Venison

Kosher Bison

Kosher Antelope

No, he walks on pads.

117 posted on 04/07/2004 6:17:34 PM PDT by SJackson (America...thru dissent and protest lost the ability to mobilize a will to win, Col Bui Tin, PAVN)
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To: SJackson
Gentle Ben!, Bambi! don't know what Bison is? that is sac religious! Zorro (My Kitty) is a vegetarian! But thinking about eating lamb Sunday maybe? not sure yet, still mullling that thought in my mind...
118 posted on 04/07/2004 6:25:26 PM PDT by missyme
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To: missyme
Zorro is safe, he has pads. Lamb are fine to eat. You probably call them buffalo, but they're bison, aka American buffalo, American food.


119 posted on 04/07/2004 6:32:30 PM PDT by SJackson (America...thru dissent and protest lost the ability to mobilize a will to win, Col Bui Tin, PAVN)
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To: SJackson
Oh My Lord! Is that you and a buffalo you just killed? are you going to eat the buffalo? YUK!
120 posted on 04/07/2004 6:34:55 PM PDT by missyme
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